If you are in the learning phase of painting like me, you are always told to buy the best materials you can afford. Here's a place where you can buy the best materials and still save money. For a fraction of the cost of buying prepared canvasses you can prepare your own. And the process of doing it is both fun and a good warm-up before painting. With just a few tools you can stretch and prime canvas to your own size and specs. The Blick Medium weight cotton rolls are high quality and economical.

I use this canvas for oil painting. I cut the size I need and mount it to PVC foam board, gatorboard or coroplast. I do mainly portrait and figurative work so I also sometimes give it a light sanding with 600 grit sandpaper for a slightly smoother finish. I love using this canvas. It works really well for my work and my budget as a retired, fixed income individual. I've never been dissappointed in it.

The first time I purchased a canvas roll it actually came on a roll and was really great. This time it came folded up in a plastic bag giving it crease lines. Pretty disappointed by this as now I have to do extra steps of ironing the canvas out and rolling it onto the old roll I have. Due to this, I would not recommend purchasing this canvas.

The price of this product compared to similar, competitive alternatives is:

A fantastic deal

Bottom LineNo, I would not recommend this to a friend

Merchant response: Our Primed Canvas is available in rolls. Unprimed canvas, sold by the yard, is cut then folded in our warehouse. You may call when you place your order to request your canvas be shipped on a roll. Please note, that there may be additional shipping fees associated with the larger size.

The weight of the canvas is ideal, the quality of the fiber is first rate. I paint daily, and often have a hard time finding the perfect weight for painting, as well as stretching over wooden stretcher bars. Some canvas weights and textures are too thin or if you are saving money by buying un-gessoed canvas, there is the extra time and expense of buying gesso, and brushes to apply it then the time needed to get it done, not to mention measuring the canvas. As a professional if I can eliminate any of those steps it saves me time and money. For the price I pay Blick, I save time as it's priced low enough that I do not need the extra expense of gessoing my own canvas, it's ready to paint on and extremely durable.

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